{"id":2791,"date":"2021-04-08T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2791"},"modified":"2021-04-02T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:46:33","slug":"the-naval-preparations-at-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-naval-preparations-at-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naval Preparations at the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 8, 1861; <em>The Charleston Mercury<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our telegraphic despatches inform us of the sailing of the steamship Atlantic, with 500 troops, a company of horse and several cannon; also, the departure of the U.S. steam frigate <em>Powhatan<\/em>, and sloop of war <em> Pawnee<\/em>, and that the steamship <em>Illinois <\/em>and brig of war <em>Perry <\/em>sail next. The <em>Atlantic <\/em>and <em>Illinois <\/em>are merchant steamers, drawing at least twenty feet water. The <em>Pawnee <\/em>and <em>Perry <\/em>draw from ten to twelve feet water.<\/p>\n<p>We learn, also, that the screw frigates <em>Minnesota <\/em>and <em>Colorado<\/em>, and side wheel frigate <em>Mississippi<\/em>, are nearly ready for sea. These ships all draw over twenty feet water. If there is a fleet of smaller vessels, their names have not transpired, and it would require a very diligent search of the U.S. Navy list to find them just now. We take it the Gulf is the destination of Commodore STRINGHAM\u2019S fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Our telegraphic despatches inform us of the sailing of the steamship Atlantic, with 500 troops, a company of horse and several cannon; also, the departure of the U.S. steam frigate Powhatan, and sloop of war Pawnee, and that the steamship Illinois and brig of war Perry sail next. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charleston-Mercury.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}